Aristarkh P. Zinchenko

Aristarkh Petrovich Zinchenko (17 April 1934-1 July 1969) was a Soviet Spetsnaz operative.

Biography
Aristarkh Petrovich Zinchenko was born in Ponyri, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on 17 April 1934, and he enlisted in the Soviet Army in 1952. He joined the Spetsnaz special forces due to his skills with combat, and he protected missile launch sites in the Kazakh SSR. In 1969, Zinchenko and several other Spetsnaz commandos were killed by the CIA in Operation Gravity.